#memory replies

[iliothermia]

Since you said we can ask, do you mind if I ask how you plan your backgrounds? They're so intricate and pretty

I just can't bring myself to draw anything that isn't contained within itself often. It's all about framing and containment for me.

Cultural references, important moments in a character's story, celebrating Tu Bishvat, flowers from my childhood attached to memories- framing is a great place to put things that aren't the focus of the piece but little supporting details about the subject, or you. Framing within framing is also helpful for me, to keep things detailed but also have a balance of not-overwhelming space too. Envisioning the space where things happens helps. After I figure out composition the unplanned rest of it can just fit in those planned spaces of busy-ness.

[total-drama-brainrot]

love how you draw duncans eyebrow like a bird about to fly off his goddamn head 💀

That'd be a silly idea. His unibrow is totally normal.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

can adhd ruin your memory?. so basically I have a really bad memory, i can remember last year at all, I know it happenned but I cant remember it, I can only recally one location from 2021, and I cant remember anything before that except one location. I know what happenned, but I cant recall anything other than a picture in my brain sometimes. I know who i am, but it feels like my whole life before today is just information, that happened because I know it happened, but icant recall it happening. is this normal, its been like this my whole life. another example is faces, I can remember details of the face (brown hair, tan skin, etc) but I cant remember the face visually. is this normal?

Hi there,

ADHD can affect short term and long term memory. Here’s an info graph and article from Neurodivergent Insights:

Here are some other articles that might help:

I hope this helps answer your question. Thank you for the inbox. I hope you have a wonderful day/night. ♥️

[unreversedumbrella]

I think the reason mobs sense of humour is forgotten by the fandom it's not only bc mob is really deadpan when he tells jokes or pulls pranks but also because they're so subtle. Mob doesn't go out of his way to tell jokes. He's more reactionary. He saw the cake falling to ground and took the opportunity to shove it in reigen's face

[surreal-duck]

snail in my ear telling me to draw them 32098 more times: me, listening to the snail:

[vickyvicarious]

I looked out over the beautiful expanse, bathed in soft yellow moonlight till it was almost as light as day. In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness. The mere beauty seemed to cheer me; there was peace and comfort in every breath I drew.

Jonathan Harker: "Yes I am a prisoner. Yes, my legal services are complete now. Yes, I just wrote a letter that I am fine and staying over, and therefore can I be disposed of any day now. Yes, my sleep schedule is screwed because I stay up all night with my captor and play nice.

But this shan't stop me from waxing poetic about the velvet darkness over nature and the soft moonlight!"

Jonathan: I Am Going To Seize This Moment Of Peace And Beauty And You Can't Stop Me

Dracula: wanna bet? *lizards*

[updatingranboo]

ranboo and aimsey on twitter!!

[fearmeeeee]

If you're familiar with either Grell Sutcliff or Integra Hellsing, I think they'd look FABULOUS in your style! But really I am sending this ask because I want you to know that you're like my fave Sebek artist on the internet 💞💞 your work is truly so beautiful, thank you for sharing it with us!

HRGGG GRELLL

Thank you so much, you are so nice ❤️

[guabiju]

Might be my favourite tweet ever

[ketchupkio]

Your Twilight being cute, wrt tiny doodles?

Sky and Twilight for you!!! Pubby get spoiled

Sky and Twilight belong to @ageless-soul-au, pls don't tag any other AUs!

[equalopportunisticlunatic]

dude headcanons?

- P2 is the shortest of the Dudes (6'2)

- P3 is the tallest (6'8)

- P3 is also the token cis man of the group

- Champ acts as a service dog for P1

- P1’s least favorite texture is velvet, he will gag if he touches it

- Speaking of sensory issues, none of the Dudes are neurotypical

I genuinely can't think of more right now, brain fog's a bitch

[hedwig221b]

KITTENS

One of you requested something dark and I said perhaps I'll do it for Halloween loooong time ago (but this year), and I can't find it anywhere! Who was it and what did you ask PLEASE I remember it happening but I'm totally blanking about the details and tumblr won't let me go past June in replies and I didn't screenshot it bc I'm a dumbass

UPD:: FOUND!!!!! Thank you @sterekzankiefeels I owe you my sanity 💖💖💖💖💖

[rukafais]

I love seeing people talk like fandom was Cool Because It Was Made Of Outcasts But Popular People Got Into It And It Became Mainstream And Thats Why People Are Mean Now, like people weren't trying to gut each other over ship wars, saying any character was mentally ill was because they were armchair diagnosing them with being a scary sociopath who had 0 empathy and there were still approximately ten thousand horror stories about BNFs trying to be god-kings of the local forum/fanfic circle/lj community

[serpentface]

I'd say the 'aware of loss of faculties until they aren't' description is apt, but with less of the horror that most humans experience with this knowledge. Units have a sense of personhood, but archin do not tend to philosophically imagine a 'self'. Their consciousness being an emergent property of many interacting bodies kind of precludes the illusion of some core, unchanging individual essence.

The basic experience of being divided is something every unit would have been through, an entire unit is not in literal constant communication and will temporarily divide itself even down to the individual to perform simple tasks (though always with the comfort of scent trails leading back to the collective).

It would still be unsettling and a source of deep melancholy. The pain would be more knowing that there is no going back, the scent trails lead nowhere, there are no more eggs being laid that will replace the parts of you that die or are separated. You would increasingly struggle with abstract concepts and complex ideas, the edges of your personality would slowly be smoothed out, you are increasingly running on raw instinct. You remember everything, but without any way to organize these memories into anything more than flashes. Most of the pain would be a profound sense of loneliness.

How a merger would feel would depend on how much of the unit remains. If its personality is more or less intact, it will probably survive as the same 'person' (mergers are usually accomplished with recently pupated ants, or by taking a few individuals from many units so as not to disrupt other consciences). If it's down to just a few ants, any remnant of the original personality will be lost upon the merger and they will settle into the new personality (perhaps subtly changing it, as all units do over time, but not in a distinct, easily identifiable way). The only thing that remains of the former unit is their raw memory. Even individual archin have very good memories and their learned experiences will supplement the new consciousness with everything it has experienced. So the new merger might learn and 'remember' the pain of loss, though not in a complex way (complex memories, like being able to tell a story, are stored in the collective and not the individual).

Mergers between roughly equal numbers of ants are rare and only done in desperation due to being incredibly disruptive to the personality of each, and a very literal danger that individual archin will become panicked and attack the 'foreign' bodies. A large ratio is ideal so one side has enough of an intact group consciousness to tamp down these impulses, and ability to physically restrain the other side until they have calmed and accommodated to the new scent. All mergers have risks of aggression, but introducing similar numbers is especially risky and sometimes fails entirely due to too many being killed in the process.

[astrobbie]

I LOVE UR ART STYLE!! Would you mind drawing entrapta? it’s cool if not tho!

sorry this took forever honestly i literally just forgot

[ingravinoveritas]

Can't believe you haven't commented on the "wear a kilt the traditional way" answer from the Attitude interview given this post 🤣

Hah! I did notice that answer in the Attitude interview, and I am of course delighted by David's continued cheekiness. I think he's mentioned in at least a few interviews now (prior to the BAFTAs, and then today) that there will be multiple costume/outfit changes, so I would not be at all surprised if a kilt is somewhere in the cards.

I suppose it might be a bit much to hope for it being this super short kilt, though...

...but we can still keep hope alive.

It's interesting as well that David just spent three months wearing a kilt almost every night for Macbeth, and given that, I imagine he will feel very comfortable in one right now. I know they had to wear shorts under those kilts for the production, but the idea of David being giddy with ecstatic glee at the thought of wearing a kilt the traditional way at the BAFTAs is almost too much to handle. But if he does...I imagine we are in for quite a treat...